Series note: Building on our recent profiling of the 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 Ford Fellows at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, we are pleased to share with you the fourth and final installment of our four Ford Fellow Roundtables. The Ford Foundation, through its fellowship programs seeks to increase diversity in our nation’s colleges and universities. I recently sat down with our current Ford Dissertation Fellows to discuss […]
Ford Fellows Roundtable: Advice for Applicants
Series note: Building on our recent profiling of the 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 Ford Fellows at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, we are pleased to share with you the third of our four Ford Fellow Roundtables. The Ford Foundation, through its fellowship programs seeks to increase diversity in our nation’s colleges and universities. I recently sat down with our current Ford Dissertation Fellows to discuss their advice to future […]
Ford Fellows Roundtable: What It Means to Be A Ford Fellow
Series note: Building on our recent profiling of the 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 Ford Fellows at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, we are pleased to share with you the second of our four Ford Fellow Roundtables. The Ford Foundation, through its fellowship programs seeks to increase diversity in our nation’s colleges and universities. I recently sat down with our current Ford Dissertation Fellows to discuss what it means to be […]
Ford Fellows Roundtable: What is Diversity?
Series note: Building on our recent profiling of the 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 Ford Fellows at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, we are pleased to share with you the first of our four Ford Fellow Roundtables. The Ford Foundation, through its fellowship programs seeks to increase diversity in our nation’s colleges and universities. I recently sat down with our current Ford Dissertation […]
Meet Our Ford Fellows: Jasmin Young
Series Note: Building on our recent profiling of the 2016-2017 Ford Fellows at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, we are pleased to launch a new feature to our blog, video posts by our successful students who will share with you their thoughts and perspectives on applying for fellowships and grants and the impact that the awards have […]
What’s New on the GradFund Website?
We’ve been developing a number of new and exciting features for the GradFund website. With this post, I would like to profile two new features: Ask a Fellowship Advisor and GradFund Conversations Forums. Both of these features expand our capacity to interact with you on-line to share information, advice and answer questions. Ask a Fellowship […]
Top Five GradFund Myths
GradFund services are very popular with Rutgers graduate students. We help students across the disciplines identify and apply for extramural, honorific fellowships and grants. Each year we work one-on-one with over 400 students And yet, when I speak with graduate students, I am surprised by how many misconceptions there are. So, in this post, I […]
The GradFund Fellowship Advising Team
In my last post, I shared with you an overview of the services offered by the Office of Graduate Student External Fellowships and Grants and GradFund. In today’s post, I would like to introduce you to the talented Fellowship Advising Team. The GradFund Fellowship Advising Team consists of 17 post docs and graduate students who work […]
An Update on GradFund Services and Consultations
As the academic year begins, I would like to take this opportunity to share with you news about GradFund services. We have had a busy summer and are excited to share with you the launch of many new initiatives this fall. This summer, we launched a new booking process for our individual meetings and expanded […]
Getting to Know GradFund: An Introduction and Update
As the academic year begins, I would like to take this opportunity to share with you news about GradFund services. We have had a busy summer and are excited to share with you the launch of many new initiatives this fall. If you have used GradFund Services in the past, you will find that we […]